SC 13G: Schedule filed to report acquisition of beneficial ownership of 5% or more of a class of equity securities by passive investors and certain institutions

SCHEDULE 13G

Amendment No.
Becton, Dickinson & Company
common stock
Cusip # 075887109
Filing Fee: Yes


Cusip # 075887109
Item 1: Reporting Person - FMR Corp. - (Tax ID: 04-2507163)
Item 4: Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Item 5: 742,691
Item 6: None
Item 7: 8,732,103
Item 8: None
Item 9: 8,732,103
Item 11: 12.30%
Item 12: HC




Cusip # 075887109
Item 1: Reporting Person - Edward C. Johnson 3d - (Tax ID: ###-##-####)
Item 4: United States of America
Item 5: None
Item 6: None
Item 7: 8,732,103
Item 8: None
Item 9: 8,732,103
Item 11: 12.30%
Item 12: IN




SCHEDULE 13G - TO BE INCLUDED IN STATEMENTS
FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)


Item 1(a). Name of Issuer:

Becton, Dickinson & Company

Item 1(b). Name of Issuer's Principal Executive Offices:

1 Becton Drive
Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417-1880

Item 2(a). Name of Person Filing:

FMR Corp.

Item 2(b). Address or Principal Business Office or, if None, Residence:

82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109

Item 2(c). Citizenship:

Not applicable

Item 2(d). Title of Class of Securities:

Common Stock

Item 2(e). CUSIP Number:

075887109

Item 3. This statement is filed pursuant to Rule 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b) and the
person filing, FMR Corp., is a parent holding company in accordance
with Section 240.13d-1(b)(ii)(G). (Note: See Item 7).

Item 4. Ownership

(a) Amount Beneficially Owned:
8,732,103

(b) Percent of Class:
12.30%

(c) Number of shares as to which such person has:

(i) sole power to vote or to direct the vote:
742,691

(ii) shared power to vote or to direct the vote:
None

(iii) sole power to dispose or to direct the disposition of:
8,732,103

(iv) shared power to dispose or to direct the disposition of:
None




Item 5. Ownership of Five Percent or Less of a Class.

Not applicable.

Item 6. Ownership of More than Five Percent on Behalf of Another Person.

Various persons have the right to receive or the power to
direct the receipt of dividends from, or the proceeds from the
sale of, the common stock of Becton, Dickinson & Company. No
one person's interest in the common stock of Becton, Dickinson
& Company is more than five percent of the total outstanding
common stock.

Item 7. Identification and Classification of the Subsidiary Which Acquired
the Security Being Reported on By the Parent Holding Company.

See attached Exhibit(s) A, B, and C.

Item 8. Identification and Classification of Members of the Group.

Not applicable, see attached Exhibit A.

Item 9. Notice of Dissolution of Group.

Not applicable.


Item 10. Certification.

By signing below I certify that, to the best of my knowledge
and belief, the securities referred to above were acquired in
the ordinary course of business and were not acquired for the
purpose of and do not have the effect of changing or
influencing the control of the issuer of such securities and
were not acquired in connection with or as a participant in any
transaction having such purpose or effect.


Signature

After reasonable inquiry and to the best of my knowledge and
belief, I certify that the information set forth in this
Schedule 13G in connection with FMR Corp's beneficial ownership
of the common stock of Becton, Dickinson & Company at September
30, 1994 is true, complete and correct.



October 7, 1994
Date



/s/Arthur S. Loring
Signature



Arthur S. Loring, Vice
President
Name/Title




SCHEDULE 13G - TO BE INCLUDED IN STATEMENTS
FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)

Pursuant to the instructions in Item 7 of Schedule 13G, Fidelity
Management & Research Company ("Fidelity"), 82 Devonshire Street, Boston,
Massachusetts 02109, a wholly-owned subsidiary of FMR Corp. and an investment
adviser registered under Section 203 of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940,
is the beneficial owner of 7,647,912 shares or 10.78% of the common stock
outstanding of Becton, Dickinson & Company ("the Company") as a result of
acting as investment adviser to several investment companies registered under
Section 8 of the Investment Company Act of 1940, and as a result of acting as
sub-adviser to Fidelity American Special Situations Trust ("FASST").

FASST is a unit trust established and authorized by the Department of
Trade and Industry under the laws of England. The investment adviser of FASST
is Fidelity Investment Services Limited, an English company and a subsidiary
of Fidelity International Limited ("FIL").

Edward C. Johnson 3d, FMR Corp., through its control of Fidelity, and the
Funds each has sole power to dispose of the 7,643,812 shares owned by the
Funds.

Neither FMR Corp. nor Edward C. Johnson 3d, Chairman of FMR Corp., has
the sole power to vote or direct the voting of the shares owned directly by
the Fidelity Funds, which power resides with the Funds' Boards of Trustees.
Fidelity carries out the voting of the shares under written guidelines
established by the Funds' Boards of Trustees.

FIL, FMR Corp., through its control of Fidelity, and FASST each has sole
power to vote and to dispose of the 4,100 shares held by FASST.

Fidelity Management Trust Company, 82 Devonshire Street, Boston,
Massachusetts 02109, a wholly-owned subsidiary of FMR Corp. and a bank as
defined in Section 3(a)(6) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, is the
beneficial owner of 1,084,191 shares or 1.53% of the common stock outstanding
of the company as a result of its serving as investment manager of the
institutional account(s).

FMR Corp., through its control of Fidelity Management Trust Company, has
sole dispositive power over 1,084,191 shares and sole power to vote or to
direct the voting of 738,591 shares, and no power to vote or to direct the
voting of 345,600 Shares of common stock owned by the institutional account(s)
as reported above.

Edward C. Johnson 3d owns 24.9% of the outstanding voting common stock of
FMR Corp. Mr. Johnson 3d is Chairman of FMR Corp. Various Johnson family
members and trusts for the benefit of Johnson family members own FMR Corp.
voting common stock. These Johnson family members, through their ownership of
voting common stock and the execution of a family shareholders' voting
agreement, form a controlling group with respect to FMR Corp.

Fidelity International Limited, Pembroke Hall, 42 Crowlane, Hamilton,
Bermuda, and various foreign-based subsidiaries provide investment advisory
and management services to a number of non-U.S. investment companies (the
"International Funds") and certain institutional investors. Fidelity
International Limited is also the beneficial owner of 4,100 shares or 0.01% of
the common stock outstanding of the company owned by FASST. Additional
information with respect to the beneficial ownership of Fidelity International
Limited is shown on Exhibit B, page 1.


SCHEDULE 13G - TO BE INCLUDED IN STATEMENTS
FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)


Pursuant to instructions in Item 7 of Schedule 13G, this Exhibit has been
prepared to identify Fidelity International Limited, Pembroke Hall, 42 Crow
Lane, Hamilton, Bermuda, a Bermudian joint stock company incorporated for an
unlimited duration by private act of the Bermuda Legislature (FIL) and an
investment adviser to various investment companies (the "International Funds")
and certain institutional investors, as the beneficial owner of 4,100 shares
or 0.01% of the common stock outstanding of Becton, Dickinson & Company owned
by FASST.

Prior to June 30, 1980, FIL was a majority-owned subsidiary of Fidelity
Management & Research Company (Fidelity), a wholly-owned subsidiary of FMR
Corp. On that date, the shares of FIL held by Fidelity were distributed, as a
dividend, to the shareholders of FMR Corp. FIL currently operates as an
entity independent of FMR Corp. and Fidelity. The International Funds and
FIL's other clients, with the exception of Fidelity and an affiliated company
of Fidelity, are non-U.S. entities.

A partnership controlled by Edward C. Johnson 3d and members of his
family owns shares of FIL voting stock with the right to cast approximately
47.22% of the total votes which may be cast by all holders of FIL voting
stock. Mr. Johnson 3d is Chairman of FMR Corp. and FIL. FMR Corp. and FIL
are separate and independent corporate entities. FMR Corp. and FIL are
managed independently and their Boards of Directors are generally composed of
different individuals. Their investment decisions are made independently, and
their clients are different organizations.

FMR Corp. and FIL are of the view that they are not acting as a "group"
for purposes of Section 13(d) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the
"1934" Act) and that they are not otherwise required to attribute to each
other the "beneficial ownership" of securities "beneficially owned" by the
other corporation within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 promulgated under the 1934
Act. Therefore, they are of the view that the shares held by the other
corporation need not be aggregated for purposes of Section 13(d). However, FMR
Corp. is making this filing on a voluntary basis as if all of the shares are
beneficially owned by FMR Corp. and FIL on a joint basis.

FIL may continue to have the International Funds or other accounts
purchase shares subject to a number of factors, including, among others, the
availability of shares for sale at what FIL considers to be reasonable prices
and other investment opportunities that may be available to the International
Funds.

FIL intends to review continuously the equity position of the
International Funds and other accounts in the Company. Depending upon its
future evaluations of the business and prospects of the Company and upon other
developments, including, but not limited to, general economic and business
conditions and money market and stock market conditions, FIL may determine to
cease making additional purchases of shares or to increase or decrease the
equity interest in the Company by acquiring additional shares, or by disposing
of all or a portion of the shares.

FIL does not have a present plan or proposal which relates to or would
result in (i) an extraordinary corporate transaction, such as a merger,
reorganization, liquidation, or sale or transfer of a material amount of
assets involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries, (ii) any change in
the Company's present Board of Directors or management, (iii) any material
changes in the Company's present capitalization or dividend policy or any
other material change in the Company's business or corporate structure, (iv)
any change in the Company's charter or by-laws, or (v) the Company's common
stock becoming eligible for termination of its registration pursuant to
Section 12(g)(4) of the 1934 Act.

FIL, FMR Corp., through its control of Fidelity, and FASST each has
sole power to vote and to dispose of the 4,100 shares held by FASST.


SCHEDULE 13G - TO BE INCLUDED IN STATEMENTS
FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)

RULE 13d-1(e) AGREEMENT

The undersigned persons, on October 7, 1994, agree and consent to the
joint filing on their behalf of this Schedule 13G in connection with their
beneficial ownership of the common stock of Becton, Dickinson & Company at
September 30, 1994.

FMR Corp.
By /s/Arthur S. Loring
Arthur S. Loring
Vice President - Legal
Edward C. Johnson 3d
By /s/Arthur S. Loring
Arthur S. Loring
Under Power of Attorney dated
5/17/89
On File with Schedule 13G for
Airborne Freight Corp. 9/10/91
Fidelity Management & Research Company
By /s/Arthur S. Loring
Arthur S. Loring
Sr. V.P. and General Counsel